We’ve got some difficult days ahead . . . But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop; I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.[Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963]

John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States(B) May 29, 1917 – (D) November 22, 1963